Re: binding--Anecdote Loretta Hartsell 10 Sep 2008 15:37 UTC
Hi, I like the anecdote!! I, as a first year librarian, am so wet behind the ears. I also use Houchen bindery, but they go up on their prices without telling me until I get the shipment in with the invoice. The latest price hike was in June and I found out in August and went to the Graduate Studies person and told them about the price increase, where upon she explained to me that the student should not have to swallow the price increase. This did not go over well with my director. So we are looking for a policy on binding theses that everyone can live with. -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Deeken, Joanne Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 7:35 AM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: [SERIALST] binding--Anecdote One library where I used to work also provided this service. Usually, it wasn't much of a problem. This story is over 20 years old, but I still vacillate between laughing and being glad I didn't really KNOW the person involved. A PhD candidate came to the library and wanted us to bind 7 (Seven!) personal copies of his dissertation. Since we did bind extra copies, we agreed thinking he'd be giving them to parents, grandparents, etc and it was HIS money to spend! Then he carefully looked at each one before handing them over. He actually had 7 different "acknowledgment" pages. One was the sort of normal "thank mom and dad and major professor" type. The other 6 had slightly different acknowledgements to something like "Mary Smith, love of my life" in one; to "Jane Doe without whose love I would not have been able to complete this work", and the list went on! It sure looked like he was running 6 different romantic relationships while working on his PhD. Must have been a busy boy! And pretty inventive to think of just the slight change in the acknowledgements would make them all happy. JoAnne Deeken -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Bolton, Karen S. Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8:53 AM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: [SERIALST] binding Hi, We provide this service to our students, too. We have them fill out a form. We charge them $11 for spine stamping with the title only, $18 for the title on spine, plus front stamping. (This is just enough to cover our costs.) Their only choice is black with white stamping. They go out with the rest of the monthly journals for binding and they come back the next month. We use Houchen from Utica, NE, and have not had many problems. No, I don't like doing it, but my boss is big on customer service, works in the graduate departments more and thinks it is a great service for us to offer, so yes, now we have it included on the library website, though we had enough business just by word of mouth, IMHO. Our bindery requires the slips that come in to be typed, so you need someone to type them. It is really not that much of a big deal, once you incorporate it in your regular workflow. Karen Bolton Serials Librarian Bolton@msoe.edu Milwaukee School of Engineering Walter Schroeder Library 1025 N. Broadway Milwaukee, WI 53202-3109 -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Loretta Hartsell Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 2:51 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: [SERIALST] binding Hello, Our library does the thesis binding along with the binding journals. This is posing as a problem for us to provide this service to Graduate Studies, because of the time and labor I have to provide in taking care that the thesis is processed correctly. What are your thoughts on this and do you have url links to binding policies at your universities? Loretta J Hartsell Serials Dunagan Library University of Texas of the Permain Basin 4901 E University Odessa, TX 79762 hartsell_l@utpb.edu